Well last day of JavaOne :(, its been quite a ride.  In this morning’s General Session James Gosling (the creator of Java) did a show-off of all the awesome toys that had been shown off during the conference.  Some of them were:

Another very full-on day at JavaOne, but no labs today.  I had had enough of Ajax for a while, although I will definitely keeping an eye on jMaki (especially after they gave me a tshirt and talking to the lead developer over a coffee on morning!)

There are a few things that I want to post that are not related at JavaOne. These are:

Day 2 started off with a really cold morning but turned out a really nice day in the end. The General Session this morning was a blatant marketing mouthpiece for Oracle and all their Enterprise Applications… yawn. It wasn’t very full either and most people walked about about half way, we have better things to do than be talked at about products we don’t care about.

The first full day at JavaOne was fullon, I left the hotel at 7.30am and have just got home now at 10.45pm! First call of the day was the free breakfast and then the first General Session of the conference. The queue was huge, with basically everyone attending queuing to be in the same room all at the same time. It filled up three walls of the massive food hall. We got in really quickly though (the whole conference has been really efficient really, it has to be with 15,000+ people attending). As we got closer I could hear Hey Ya by Outkast playing and when I walked in the door to the literally the largest room I have ever seen there was a bunch of people dancing on the stage. As we crowded for a closer look, we found out that it was actually Outkast (not what sure what they have to with Java but anyway) and they basically rattled off all their hits as the room was filled. I will take some photos of the main hall, words cannot describe how large it is!

I had an awesome day today at the first day of the conference. It was called CommunityOne and was free and open to anyone who was interested in the java platform. There was a big focus on Rich Internet Applications and therefore running scripting languages (like ruby and python) within the JVM and taking advantage of the 15 years of optimisations and new features.

Have you ever had list of status flags that have a meaning and within excel be able to change the number for the actual meaning? Then this is for you!

I know that this isn’t tech-related at all and really don’t want to turn this into a person blog where I write what I had for dinner but thought it would be a good place to put a pic of my new bike.

This is quick and dirty how-to to get Quartz Extreme and Core Image at full resolution working on OSx86 (with OSX 10.4.8) a nVidia 7600gt 256MB card.

This is how to set a program (or daemon) to run at boot. For example, if you want to run at cron at boot (which you would) issue the following as root.